January 9, 2016 Daily Feast Of Wisdom (Tsugitsvnvda Danalisdayvhvsgv Agadohvsdi ) (ᏧᎩᏨᏅᏓ ᏓᎾᎵᏍᏓᏴᎲᏍᎬ ᎠᎦᏙᎲᏍᏗ)

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January 9 - Daily Feast

When someone slings a dart, a comment that hurts, we want to hit back. The indignity of an attack for no reason is beyond our understanding. Persons with no conscience sling arrows without thought of where they hit. Their desire is to hit something. What we have not known is that we can turn them back. We don't have to accept everything that is said. The quickest way to deflate the egotist is to see him as not important enough to take into account. His type of disease is contagious, and you should never expose yourself to such painful maladies.

~ You have compelled us to do that which makes us ashamed. ~

CORNPLANT - SENECA CHIEF 1781

"A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II" by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 9

"So, with the Native way, it's not whether people find out about what you've done or not... that's not nearly as strong as having your source of morality within you, having your morality arise out of an inner perception of what is wrong, ridiculous, or shameful. You are your own judge."

Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Ph.D., PENOBSCOT

Inside each of us is a voice. It is a quiet voice. It is a guiding voice. If we listen for it, it will guide us, and help us avoid disaster. It is especially active when we are afraid, when we are in doubt, when we are scared, when we need help, and when we get angry. If we are excited emotionally, it is hard to hear this voice. If we are angry, it's hard to hear this voice because it is usually quiet. The best thing we can do is to practice getting quiet. If we don't get quiet, there is another voice called the judge. It tells us to attack or say bad things to other people or to judge ourselves. This voice is loud and usually gets us into trouble.

Creator, Great Mystery, help me listen for the quiet voice. Let me know this voice of Yours. Your ways are gentle. Guide me with this voice. Thank you.

'THINK on THESE THINGS'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

So many mysteries, so much in question, so much to hold us in uncertainty.

Maybe we have settled our minds too much on what we have learned and what is obvious without considering what truth really is. Truth is real. The rule of thumb that keeps us on the right road. But what is truth? Truth is the unchangeable, the perfect that cannot be detracted from -- nor added to. It is the same from any angle and anyone who believes he can twist it just a little will not be surprised that he has only twisted his own view.

We cannot make something wrong into something right by saying it must be the way we see it. The heart and spirit know the difference and we must take heed of the age-old wisdom that comes forth when we ask it to come.